Grammar

Everyone, someone, no one

Hiya! In this video we’re going to see how to use ‘everyone, someone and no one’. Ready? Here we go.

In an average classroom there are 24 students. In the morning everyone has to arrive by 8:45. If they don’t, they have to sit in detention in the afternoon – it means you cannot go home early: you have to stay longer.

All right, let’s look at how we use the word ‘everyone’. First off, if you start the sentence with ‘everyone’ (in other words: ‘everyone’ is the subject of the sentence), it works like a singular word:

Everyone IS here.
Everyone HAS a pen.
Everyone was at the party.

However, we use ‘they’ and ‘them’ to refer to the same people. E.g. When everyone was in the meeting room, the boss greeted them and they all sat down.

The same rules apply to ‘someone’:

As I was walking down the dark street, I felt someone was watching me. ‘Someone wants to catch me’, I thought. I started to speed up; after all, I didn’t want them to get me.

As you can see, ‘someone’ acts as a singular word when used as a subject; however, we use ‘they’ and ‘them’ to refer to the same person:

Someone is here already. They are an early bird.
Someone has bought a bottle of champagne for me. How thoughtful of them!
Someone was cooking in my kitchen yesterday! I want to talk to them about it!

Great. Let’s check the negative pair now: no one.

No one was in the shop as I entered.

If you use ‘no one’ as a subject, it is considered a singular word (or pronoun if you want to give it the proper name):

No one has turned up, I’m afraid.
No one was at church yesterday.
No one knows this song, mate;
and no one wants to listen to it.

Okay. A quick note here: I used the words everyone, someone and no one, but the same applies to everybody, somebody and nobody, ok?

Great. And now we end our mini-lesson there. Go, practise. See you soon!

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